Rating:  - The web services bible.
Monson-Haefel has written the book to own if you are developing web services. Even though the book is a few years old, you still need to get this book. If you go around my company and my previous company, all J2EE developers have this one sitting on their desk.
Do a Google search and read Monson-Haefel's blog. You will get some insight on his thoughts during and after writing the book and you will find that he will not be doing a revision.
That's a complete shame but I don't blame him. It would be nice to get a new revision on all of the new stuff that has come along like annotations, JAX-WS, etc.
Rating:  - Excellent book for a developer/practitioner
This book is very useful for developers/architects who are writing system software or application software dealing with web services.
If you are just going to write some web service client code to access some web service or planning to deploy simple web services, then this book will not be very useful.
There is good coverage of XML Schema, UDDI, JAXR and WS-I Basic Profile wherever relevant. The J2EE 1.4 model web services are explained in decent detail. Some extra examples would have been better. Of course the number of pages would have increased then.
To be an architect/developer/practitioner of web services related technologies, you need to have a sound knowledge of the theory behind the specifications. You can always look up online tutorials etc for sample code. This book will provide you the theory behind web services.
Anil Saldhana
Chicago Java Users Group
Rating:  - Topic Well Covered, But Something's Missing
This is a very technical book, written by very technical people for other very technical people. It would never be considered light reading or adorn many coffee tables.
The authors handle the various and diffuse material reasonably well, given that they are very technical people &c, but at some point it begins to resemble a conclave of monks arguing about angels and needles, and the whole structure begins to resemble something by Rube Goldberg instead of a work well though out.
It is a reasonably thorough book on this very technical subject, some 800+ pages of heavy lifting. From the vantage point of a company making investments that utilize technology, what the book is about strongly goes against Ockham's Razor. But if the simpler approach cannot or will not be adopted for any reason then this is a useful reference book that most, perhaps all, of the implementation consultants should have in their libraries.
Rating: - Disappointing examples.
It's been enduring pain when I tested the code examples and it did'nt work on JBoss. The content looks a bit old and needs an update.
Rating: - With a high level of details
I'm very happy with this book because it has the level of details that I need. I recomend this book for professionals would who like to do the code with their own hands because they want to have total control over their code production.
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